Formal Essay On 'Informal' By Zabel Esayan
Informal Essay
Zabel Esayan went back and documented her first hand experiences of the remains from the Adana massacres. What she wrote was not only informational, but very moving, truthful, and powerful. The things she said about the city, people, and how the survivors acted after and during it was incredible.
The word choice that Esayan uses is very moving. When she talks about what is left of the city, the survivors, and how the survivors seem to act hits me in a way that is hard to describe. I have never gotten emotional reading passages or books before. While reading this, I could actually feel myself getting emotionally and physically attached. Esayan spent a lot of time going through and making sure whoever was to read this, was to be affected in a way that is for the better. When she talks about the city she says, “ the devastated city stretches outward like a boundless cemetery.” This exact passage hit me the hardest. It gave me the sense that people were actually murdered brutally and the city itself was left to rot with the remains of the Armenian people. …show more content…
Just as Esayan was saying, it is actually hard to comprehend what actually happened.
There was so much brutality and inhumane things that one could not even begin to possibly try to understand what happened. I do believe that she explained what happened very well. She said it in a way that you could actually feel in a hypothetical way what the Armenians when through. There was a passage that she described about, “mothers had failed to recognize their children, and crippled, blind old people were left behind in houses that had been set ablaze. “. This truly put me into a spot where I had to set the reading down and actually take a break. Even though it was a short passage, it covered so much and had a truly inspiring and crazy impact on
me.
I read the fourth eyewitness account in Adalian’s chapter, The Armenian Genocide. In this eyewitness account a woman named Yevnig Adrouni talked about how the government took her family away from her. She describes in detail how her father was tortured in the prisons by removing his nails and beating his body so brutally that he was black and blue all over. She her self, was actually taken to the desert of Deir el Zor. She was not allowed to drink water. The most powerful thing she talked about was the pregnant woman being cut open so their babies would fall to the ground. This account was moving, powerful, and very well written.
Works Cited
Adrouni, Yevnig "Account 4." Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. Ed Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. 142-43. Print.
Zabel Esayan went back and documented her first hand experiences of the remains from the Adana massacres. What she wrote was not only informational, but very moving, truthful, and powerful. The things she said about the city, people, and how the survivors acted after and during it was incredible.
The word choice that Esayan uses is very moving. When she talks about what is left of the city, the survivors, and how the survivors seem to act hits me in a way that is hard to describe. I have never gotten emotional reading passages or books before. While reading this, I could actually feel myself getting emotionally and physically attached. Esayan spent a lot of time going through and making sure whoever was to read this, was to be affected in a way that is for the better. When she talks about the city she says, “ the devastated city stretches outward like a boundless cemetery.” This exact passage hit me the hardest. It gave me the sense that people were actually murdered brutally and the city itself was left to rot with the remains of the Armenian people. …show more content…
Just as Esayan was saying, it is actually hard to comprehend what actually happened.
There was so much brutality and inhumane things that one could not even begin to possibly try to understand what happened. I do believe that she explained what happened very well. She said it in a way that you could actually feel in a hypothetical way what the Armenians when through. There was a passage that she described about, “mothers had failed to recognize their children, and crippled, blind old people were left behind in houses that had been set ablaze. “. This truly put me into a spot where I had to set the reading down and actually take a break. Even though it was a short passage, it covered so much and had a truly inspiring and crazy impact on
me.
I read the fourth eyewitness account in Adalian’s chapter, The Armenian Genocide. In this eyewitness account a woman named Yevnig Adrouni talked about how the government took her family away from her. She describes in detail how her father was tortured in the prisons by removing his nails and beating his body so brutally that he was black and blue all over. She her self, was actually taken to the desert of Deir el Zor. She was not allowed to drink water. The most powerful thing she talked about was the pregnant woman being cut open so their babies would fall to the ground. This account was moving, powerful, and very well written.
Works Cited
Adrouni, Yevnig "Account 4." Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. Ed Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. 142-43. Print.